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I've long wanted to show everyone a collection of the first workplace safety posters from some nuclear laboratory. Well, it turned out to get the original posters from the walls of Oak ridge National laboratory. They hung there in 1947, during research on the Manhattan project. Yes, funny posters.
But I wanted to get, of course, not them, and posters from our laboratories. Those that were formed when the uranium centrifuge and other equipment, as well as the documents and reagents of the von Ardenne laboratory and the Kaiser Institute of physics were transported from Berlin. Then in the USSR created the laboratory A, B, C, D, which was headed by German scientists. The head of laboratory A was Baron Manfred von Ardenne, who developed a method for gas diffusion purification and separation of uranium isotopes in a centrifuge. Later, laboratory A was taken to Sukhumi, where a physics and technology Institute was established on its basis. In 1953, Baron von Ardenne became Stalin's laureate for the second time.
Laboratory B, which conducted experiments in radiation chemistry in the Urals, was headed by Nikolaus Riel, a key figure in the military project. There, in Snezhinsk, he worked with a talented Russian geneticist Timofeev-Resovsky, with whom they were friends in Germany. The successful test of the atomic bomb earned Riel the star of Hero of Socialist Labor and the Stalin prize.
Research laboratory in Obninsk led by Professor Rudolf Pose-a pioneer in the field of nuclear testing. His team managed to create fast neutron reactors, the first nuclear power plant in the USSR, projects of reactors for submarines. On the basis of the laboratory was later established Physics and energy Institute named after A. I. Leipunsky. Until 1957, the Professor worked in Sukhumi, then in Dubna, at the Joint Institute of nuclear technologies.
Laboratory D, located in the Sukhumi sanatorium Agudzery, was headed by Gustav Hertz. The nephew of the famous scientist of the XIX century became famous after a series of experiments that confirmed the ideas of quantum mechanics and the theory of Niels Bohr. The results of his productive work in Sukhumi were used to create an industrial plant in Novouralsk, where in 1949 the first Soviet RDS-1 bomb was stuffed.
Actually all these laboratories had svezherazrabotannuyu safety and visual propaganda on how to behave in the workplace.
But no trace. Nothing can be found.
And the Americans-here they are. Everything is for sale. But it is interesting. The exhibition will work one of these days.
